^ Alan Gratz mentioned that the reason for the long delay between the originally scheduled release date for The Assassination Game and the eventual actual release date was that he had to wait to get manuscript notes back from Bad Robot:

The Assassination Game (as has been pointed out) was scheduled to come out long ago. The delay was in getting notes back from Bad Robot, J.J. Abram's film company. Everything I wrote had to be signed off on by them, and, well, they were kind of busy making Star Trek 12. (And Fringe, and Super 8, and...)